We live in a different world now. Human contact, especially in a hands-on environment, can be deadly these days. With proper precautions (wear your mask…
As a professional violinist, I get asked a lot of questions. Is the violin hard? Are your strings really made out of cat gut? How…
Sometimes listeners have trouble identifying music they hear, and they try to at least guess the composer. Sometimes it’s easy (like Haydn vs. Bartok), but…
Wouldn’t it be great if all of our gigs were in the same town we live in? Or at least within an hour of our…
There are three basic categories of classical music that performers can choose from – orchestral music, solo music, and chamber music. Obviously within those categories…
For those of you just joining us, I usually post 2-3 times every month. You may have noticed an almost two month layoff. Hopefully you…
For those of us who make our living performing classical music, loving it is a no-brainer. Explaining it to the uninitiated is another matter completely. …
Summer is here (at least in Georgia where I live) and that means school is out, kids run wild, and the weather is nasty. High…
Well, here we are. I’ve been out of town performing and that’s made me a little negligent when it comes to writing for my blog. …
The other two brackets have completed their games so it’s time to get the results. If you missed the other results, you can see them…
The games are afoot, so to speak, in the Tournament of Classical Music! Here is the first update and results post. Now, this year I’m…
March is here, and with it comes the madness. March Madness to be exact. My version of March Madness is The Tournament of Classical Music. …
